Transitional year, the word sounds like boredom. But the first three months of this Formula 1 season are completely opposite: the premier class was no longer as exciting as in the last section of the conventional hybrid racing cars. Hardly any racing weekend without surprise. The remarkable qualifying at the Grand Prix of Canada this Sunday evening (8:00 p.m. in the F.A.Z.-Live ticker for Formula 1, Sky and RTL) was therefore not the exception, but the rule. McLaren may be the big favorite, but as could be visited again on the Île Notre-Dame, with Red Bull Racing, Ferrari and Mercedes there are three more top racing stables. What a car quartet! “The most exciting round I have ever driven” The tenth World Cup run is a Mercedes pilot in the pole position for the first time this year with George Russell: “That was probably the most exciting round I have ever driven in my life, because this race track has to be fully driven. When I drove over the finish line, I had Goose flesh.” The feat was also successful in the previous year, but this time he was only considered an outsider. Because next to Russell, the second best of Saturday world champion Max Verstappen is. The two, not the best friends anyway, had got in the way at the last race in Spain that the Dutch had been carried away into an evil foul and after a collision ten penalty seconds and three penalty points were given up. In doing so, he leads the Formula 1 traffic offender card with now eleven points, at the twelfth point he would automatically be blocked for a race. In the apron of the Canadian Grand Prix, Russell had already announced: “We have to deal with his situation wisely and draw our advantage from it.” That sounded like provocation. Verstappen, to whom the gap of 49 points on World Cup leaders Oscar Piatri and his own elbow mentality hardly leaves a choice than the attack, claims to simply not think that he could threaten a lock. “For me, nothing changes in the procedure,” says the sinner, “I trust my instincts.” In the meantime, he already annoys the mention of the topic: “This is childish.” But it naturally increases the tension when you get to the first curve. To the first time, two also uncompromising pilots lurk with Oscar Piatri in the McLaren and Kimi Antonelli in the second silver arrow, which also applies to Lewis Hamilton with Ferrari and Fernando Alonso in the hardened Aston Martin. The Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve is also a close, slippery and uneven occasional racer route that is tricky and always good for incidents. Russell also fears the temperature sensitivity of his car. If it gets too warm, the tires on the Mercedes no longer work so well. And the microclimate on the Sankt-Lorenz stream often changes rapidly, which has a particularly important effect on the brakes on the stop-and-go route and the tires. Pneu science is one of many factors for a successful profit calculation this year. Nobody can be sure, because as moody as the racing cars and the tires, of which Verstappen can sing a lament in particular, are also the top drivers-the Australian Piatri, which is not wrongly known as “Iceman”. In Montreal, his teammate Lando Norris once again missed under pressure. After seventh place, the British wrote the horror on the face – he had touched the wall on the crucial round. It was similarly bad for the Ferraristi Charles Leclerc, who was only eighth. The field that was closely related could mess up the plans between the pole position and the tenth was only for a good second, because every detail decides-the form of the day must break down to the shape of the right minute. Of course, this enormous performance density has to do with the fact that the technical regulations that are only valid until December. All ten racing stables have long known where the traps are at the ground-effective technology that is so difficult to tamely. Nobody wants and can take big steps because the majority of the budget is already reserved for the new buildings of the future. More on the subject of a journey into the unknown, because of which some race stables have planned to invest in the current autogeneration in July. The field that is so closely related could mess up the planning for some teams. Because the low distances on the slopes suddenly offer the chance to score in the lucrative constructure rating, where there are often double-digit million sums between the prize money distribution between the places, which is why the focus is then on the current World Cup, as the Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur, which is under pressure Improvements than the current car. Finding the right balance is everything in Formula 1st Fia boss, Sulayem strengthens his power of the President of the International Automobile Association (FIA), Mohamed bin Sulayem, an important step on the way to his re-election he sought in December. During the general assembly of the FIA in Macau shortly before the Formula 1 race in Canada, 83.35 percent of the members approved the changes to statutes. Am Sulayem prevailed, among other things, with a pre -laying of the deadline to register a presidential candidacy. The FIA President will also be able to influence the composition of the FIA Senate. A huge majority of voters, 88.83 percent, decided to revise the ethics code. Accordingly, people can be excluded from the election to an FIA committee if there are doubts about their integrity: “The changes aim to further improve the processes related to governance and confidentiality,” said the FIA: “They give the nomination committee more time to test the suitability of candidates and help to ensure consistency and care in the election process.” Continuation of an expansion of power. So far, the FIA boss has been attacked primarily from England. The news agency Reuters now quoted from a letter from the Austrian automobile club ÖAMTC: “It cannot be (…) that changes with relevance for the FIA elections are promoted at the time the incumbent president announces his intention to re-election. If there are only the appearance that these changes are more likely to serve the current FIA management as the organization, they should not be adopted.” So far there are no official opponents. The former rally world champion Carlos Sainz leaves open whether he will compete. The Spaniard received encouragement from Formula 1 pilots and team bosses. The supporters do not see a conflict of interest, his son drives for Williams. (F.A.Z.)
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